{"id":44290,"date":"2016-01-28T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/antidepressant-use-common-among-reproductive-aged-women\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:04:15","slug":"el-consumo-de-antidepresivos-es-comun-entre-las-mujeres-en-edad-reproductiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-consumo-de-antidepresivos-es-comun-entre-las-mujeres-en-edad-reproductiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Antidepressant Use Common Among Reproductive-Aged Women;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WHITE PLAINS, New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 28, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0More than 15 percent of reproductive-aged women have filled a prescription for an antidepressant medication during the years 2008\u20132013, according to a new analysis published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&#8217;s <i>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multivu.com\/players\/English\/7709851-march-of-dimes-antidepressant-pregnancy-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.multivu.com\/players\/English\/7709851-march-of-dimes-antidepressant-pregnancy-study\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150409\/197662LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150409\/197662LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and the CDC\u00a0is working with the March of Dimes to raise awareness about the use of antidepressant medications by women of reproductive age, and what women should know and do for their own health and that of their babies. There is conflicting evidence about the potential link between some antidepressants\u00a0and certain birth defects. Some commonly used antidepressants are sertraline (Zoloft), bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban), and citalopram (Celexa).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women experiencing depression and anxiety need treatment. We don&#8217;t advocate anyone going off their medication as this can also have serious consequences,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Siobhan Dolan<\/span>, MD, MPH, medical advisor to the March of Dimes. &#8220;We urge women to speak to their doctors about all their medications and discuss alternatives. \u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s possible for women to switch to another type of treatment, such as counseling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, a baby is born with a birth defect every four and a half minutes, and one out of every five deaths in the first year of life is caused by a birth defect.\u00a0 In addition to the human toll, birth defects incur hospital-related economic costs that exceed <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.6 billion<\/span> annually.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>The new analysis looked at annual claims of more than 5.8 million privately-insured women between the ages of 15 and 44 who had a prescription for an antidepressant filled between 2008 and 2013. They found that older women are more than twice as likely as younger women to fill an antidepressant prescription. The most common prescription was sertraline (Zoloft), filled by an average of 3.3 percent of women of childbearing age, followed by bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban) by 2.7 percent of women, then citalopram (Celexa) by 2.6 percent, escitalopram by 2.5 percent, and fluoxetine by 2.3 percent. \u00a0Sertraline, the antidepressant used most often, was not linked to an increased risk of birth defects, according to research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Antidepressant Prescription Claims among Reproductive-Aged Women \u2014 <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> 2008\u20132013,&#8221; by <span class=\"xn-person\">April L. Dawson<\/span>, MPH of CDC,\u00a0Janis Biermann, MS of the March of Dimes and others, appears today in <i>MMWR<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC&#8217;s <i>Treating for Two: Safer Medication Use in Pregnancy<\/i> initiative focuses on providing women and their healthcare providers with reliable and accessible information on medications commonly used during pregnancy. This initiative aims to expand and accelerate research and to deliver up-to-date information to women and healthcare providers so that they have enough information to make informed treatment decisions and can take the safest medications to manage their conditions. More information is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/treatingfortwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.cdc.gov\/treatingfortwo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health.\u00a0 For more than 75 years, moms and babies have benefited from March of Dimes research, education, vaccines, and breakthroughs.\u00a0 Find out how you can help prevent premature birth and birth defects by joining March for Babies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforbabies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">marchforbabies.org<\/a>. For the latest resources and information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/marchofdimes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">marchofdimes.org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/nacersano.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nacersano.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Find us on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WHITE PLAINS, New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 28, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0More than 15 percent of reproductive-aged women have filled a prescription for an antidepressant medication during the years 2008\u20132013, according to a new analysis published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&#8217;s <i>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here: &lt;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}